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Ciaron Maher is likely to resist testing Mrs Chrissie (NZ) (Per Incanto) at the Flemington 1200 metres for the first time in next Saturday's Gr.3 Standish Handicap (1200m), instead setting his sights on a Listed race over a shorter trip on the Australia Day weekend. The speedster
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Guy Heveldt, Jayne Ivil and Bruce Sherwin review a super day of racing from Trentham, highlighted by the Group 1 TAB Telegraph and New Year's Day racing at Ellerslie. Reflect on the career of retired jockey Opie Bosson and Noel Harris' New Year's Day honours.
New Zealand
Roger James and Robert Wellwood have spent plenty of time in the three-year-old spotlight in the last couple of seasons, and the Cambridge trainers unveiled another bright prospect in Saturday’s Thames Valley Insurance 3YO (1150m) at Te Aroha. James and Wellwood’s star performers Prowess (NZ) (Proisir) and Orchestral
New Zealand
Star filly Captured By Love (Written Tycoon) continued her preparation towards another Group One goal with an impressive exhibition gallop at Te Aroha on Saturday. Captured By Love capped off a successful spring campaign when taking out the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) in November, a contest that
Australia
Accomplished galloper With Your Blessing put a lacklustre last campaign behind him with a gritty first-up victory in the A$160,000 Inglis Classic Sale Handicap (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday. The New Zealand-bred son of Vadamos kicked off his career with a Canterbury placing back in February of 2021
Australia
Geelong has now staged two runnings of the A$300,000 Coastal Classic (1700m), and both of them have been won by the Kiwi-bred gelding Holymanz. The chestnut son of Almanzor carried the 53kg minimum weight to win the inaugural edition of the race last January, and he returned to
Australia
Talented New Zealand-bred filly Perfumist extended her increasingly impressive winning sequence to three with a commanding all-the-way victory in the A$160,000 Captivant @ Kia Ora Handicap (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday. The daughter of El Roca was a debut winner at Bathurst as a two-year-old and showed promise with
New Zealand
Within the space of just two starts as a four-year-old, Grail Seeker has announced her arrival as one of the brightest stars in New Zealand racing. A first-up winner of the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings back at the beginning of September, the Iffraaj mare lined up for
New Zealand
Progressive mare Nigella Lane had hinted in her most recent starts that another winning turn was coming her way and she delivered on those signs with a dominant performance to take out the Lockwood Coromandel Peninsula Thames Cup (1600m) at Te Aroha. Successful over 1600m at Tauranga in November, the
New Zealand
Outsider Ruby Rocks overcame plenty of pre-race drama to register her biggest career victory when she led all the way to upset at odds of $61 in Saturday’s Listed Lincoln Farms Marton Cup (2200m). Trainer Roger Allen and the eight-year-old mare had to endure a horror journey to the
New Zealand
A black-type victory eluded My Lips Are Sealed by the barest of margins in the Gr.3 Eulogy Stakes (1600m) at Trentham last season, but the talented mare returned to Wellington on Saturday and went one better in the Gr.3 Rydges Wellington Airport Phar Lap Trophy (1600m). The daughter
New Zealand
Debutant runner Tale Of The Gypsy continued the winning roll for the Stephen Marsh stable when she headed off stablemate Miss Moet All to take out the opening event at Te Aroha, the Graeme Wright Transport (1000m). Although unseen at the trials before stepping out for the first time on